Music industry – One step closer to being accurate
Drake, Adele, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, BTS, Olivia Rodrigo… these have been some of the biggest artists of the year, but who are YouTube most streamed artists of 2021?
While YouTube doesn’t bring in as much money to the music industry as say Spotify or Apple Music, is it a major player nonetheless, and especially in certain markets.
A very diverse platform, artists from all around the world feature among the most streamed stars of the year 2021. Today, we will review them.
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As you can expect, the likes Drake and Ariana Grande recorded several of the top album debuts on Spotify, but many more are performing incredibly well.
In fact, so far as many as 72 releases have broken the 100 million mark during their first week. Do you think your favorite artist is among them?
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The K-Pop industry continues its outstanding rise to fame. If BTS are the flagship of the genre, more groups are proving to be incredibly popular, with one of the hottest of them being the all-female band Blackpink.
Last year, they dropped their first entire album, but they have been releasing very popular songs and mini albums for several years. How much have they sold up to date?
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Selena Gomez is back with her first ever Spanish-language project, Revelacíon.
This comes just a little over a year since the release of Rare, the star’s sixth studio album overall.
Surprisingly enough, the Disney alumni has been a consistent hit maker for a little over a decade now. How does she compare to her peers and A-League stars? Stick around to find out!
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As they have been doing since 2001, the IFPI published this week the top selling albums of the year. Unlike the previous edition, when they got the #1 wrong, this time they properly reported the global domination of Korean superstars BTS.
At the start, the list had some issues mainly due to missing albums. As years pass, its accuracy is getting worse and worse. We will review their 2020 top 10 to see that none of the albums has both its ranking and its sales figure correct.
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While YouTube doesn’t bring in as much money to the music industry as say Spotify or Apple Music, is it a major player nonetheless, and especially in certain markets.
A very diverse platform, artists from all around the world feature among the most streamed stars of the year 2020. Today, we will review them.
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Do you like to know the truth? So do I. Nowadays, it seems that every week we hear about broken streaming records. Is that real information or brainwashing?
We will start adressing this question by looking at the biggest streaming debuts through the world!
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The MENA region (short for Middle East and North Africa) has been a place of mystery for very long with no official charts and very few certifications ever coming out.
This resulted in very little awareness of sales happening there. Luckily these days are now over with streaming taking over the industry.
In this article, we will list the most popular international stars in the region, where does your favorite one lands?
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Every year China seems to be climbing several positions on IFPI’s top music market’s ranking and the growth doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon.
In just a few years we could see this country overtake markets like the UK, France and Germany and seriously challenging Japan! So who is benefiting the most from this? Just like we did with Gaana earlier this year we’re now looking at the most followed international artists on QQ Music, China’s biggest streaming service.
